Scuffles as police separate unaccompanied minors from other refugees at Calais Jungle camp

Scuffles broke out in the Jungle camp in Calais less than an hour after French authorities began a fresh round of processing refugees and migrants to be driven away.

Scuffles as police separate unaccompanied minors from other refugees at Calais Jungle camp

Update: 11.25am: Volunteers from Ireland who have been involved in assisting refugees in France originally through Irish Refugee Solidarity, have said the situation is calm at the moment, but people are afraid.

Mairead Healy, who is acting as a human rights observer during the French operation, said: "At the moment there is relative calm in the Jungle. But as you can imagine there is a high degree of uncertainty in the air. We are all waiting for the demolition but have no idea when this will actually commence.

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